but most important is CONTENT

 

i wonder why all worksheets are about MATCHING...............................................???????

 

cause those activities are not brain challenging or original enough

 

just my opinion

 

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I agree, colour is ideally the way to go for worksheets. However, a lot depends on the resources available where you teach. I teach at a small government junior high school - approximately 260 students. When I produce approximately 8 - 10 worksheets every week that means a lot of colour printing which is not cost effective as we have bubble jet printers, not laser colour printers.

 

I also agree that more stimulating work is required. The matching worksheets, however,  provide a way to expand the students� vocabulary and can be used as an adjunct to the rest of the lesson. A worksheet is a way to practice the lesson, not  be the entire lesson itself. Depending on the level of your students it is also sometimes important to have work all of the students can complete, not just the advanced ones. This helps to keep some of the strugglers a little more motivated.

 

Just a few thoughts, anyway.

 

I�d love to vounce around some of your worksheet ideas too!

 

Konichi wa from Japan!

 

 

 

Have a good day!

Since I teach young students and they need to practise writing a lot  (apart from the oral part) I use :

scrambled words

odd one out

filling the missing letters

circling or coloring the correct alternative and then writing the right word

grids

definitions plus guessing the words

drawing symbols for the words

texts with pictures so as to replace them for the words

finding out the word by looking at the shadows

short answers

labeling pictures by cutting and pasting the words (or the other way)

classifying words

true or false

secret codes

for example

I have a small baby that�s why i haven�t been able to concentrate on preparing much material but i promise I��ll do my best on vacations

Lunita ... maybe I sounded unfriendly but the truth is that i should have mentioned worksheets here are almost a piece of fine art...

 

greetings and a hug from chile

 

pepa

Much better for me...:) I have many options now. I also have a baby and I deeply understand you...so don�t worry take your time, thanks for the ideas!!